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revlog: introduce an explicit tracking of what the revlog is about
Since the dawn of time, people have been forced to rely to lossy introspection
of the index filename to determine what the purpose and role of the revlog they
encounter is. This is hacky, error prone, inflexible, abstraction-leaky,
<insert-your-own-complaints-here>.
In f63299ee7e4d Raphaël introduced a new attribute to track this information:
`revlog_kind`. However it is initialized in an odd place and various instances
end up not having it set. In addition is only tracking some of the information
we end up having to introspect in various pieces of code.
So we add a new attribute that holds more data and is more strictly enforced.
This work is done in collaboration with Raphaël.
The `revlog_kind` one will be removed/adapted in the next changeset. We expect
to be able to clean up various existing piece of code and to simplify coming
work around the newer revlog format.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10352
author | Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net> |
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date | Tue, 06 Apr 2021 05:20:24 +0200 |
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What are phases? ================ Phases are a system for tracking which changesets have been or should be shared. This helps prevent common mistakes when modifying history (for instance, with the mq or rebase extensions). Each changeset in a repository is in one of the following phases: - public : changeset is visible on a public server - draft : changeset is not yet published - secret : changeset should not be pushed, pulled, or cloned These phases are ordered (public < draft < secret) and no changeset can be in a lower phase than its ancestors. For instance, if a changeset is public, all its ancestors are also public. Lastly, changeset phases should only be changed towards the public phase. How are phases managed? ======================= For the most part, phases should work transparently. By default, a changeset is created in the draft phase and is moved into the public phase when it is pushed to another repository. Once changesets become public, extensions like mq and rebase will refuse to operate on them to prevent creating duplicate changesets. Phases can also be manually manipulated with the :hg:`phase` command if needed. See :hg:`help -v phase` for examples. To make your commits secret by default, put this in your configuration file:: [phases] new-commit = secret Phases and servers ================== Normally, all servers are ``publishing`` by default. This means:: - all draft changesets that are pulled or cloned appear in phase public on the client - all draft changesets that are pushed appear as public on both client and server - secret changesets are neither pushed, pulled, or cloned .. note:: Pulling a draft changeset from a publishing server does not mark it as public on the server side due to the read-only nature of pull. Sometimes it may be desirable to push and pull changesets in the draft phase to share unfinished work. This can be done by setting a repository to disable publishing in its configuration file:: [phases] publish = False See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files. .. note:: Servers running older versions of Mercurial are treated as publishing. .. note:: Changesets in secret phase are not exchanged with the server. This applies to their content: file names, file contents, and changeset metadata. For technical reasons, the identifier (e.g. d825e4025e39) of the secret changeset may be communicated to the server. Examples ======== - list changesets in draft or secret phase:: hg log -r "not public()" - change all secret changesets to draft:: hg phase --draft "secret()" - forcibly move the current changeset and descendants from public to draft:: hg phase --force --draft . - show a list of changeset revisions and each corresponding phase:: hg log --template "{rev} {phase}\n" - resynchronize draft changesets relative to a remote repository:: hg phase -fd "outgoing(URL)" See :hg:`help phase` for more information on manually manipulating phases.